What's the worst meal you've been served at a wedding?

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I'm veggie so unfortunately have had my fair share of shitty wedding meals as the vegetarians often seem to get shafted but this one takes the biscuit. Fancy wedding, very expensive and exclusive venue, meat eaters had a feast and it looked amazing, I was served......a grilled mushroom, and it was cold. This place is probably £100 per head at the very least and the best they could rustle up for a vegetarian was a mushroom. So, make me feel better, what's the worst meal you've been served?
This is meant to be light hearted 🐱

I can’t complain about the food i’ve been served at any of the weddings I have been to, they were the standard 3 courses and a bacon roll or something at night.

It’s only my own that was different as we didnt do the hotel/church wedding. We got married in registry office at 3pm, to the reception, speeches and photos done for 5.30 so opened the cold buffet. Trays and trays of food, chilli and curry if they wanted something warm but it was a sunny day in July so they didn’t get touched.
People were told to help themselves to the cake. The chocolate one went down well!
At 8.30pm we had 15 large pizzas and a dozen portions of chips delivered, i even remembered to order a gluten free one for my cousins then GF!

I remember people pulling a face when we told them about the food… the same people who thought it was a fabulous idea when they were 7 or 8 pints in and one of the best weddings they had ever been to!

We went to a wedding reception on a hot July day. We walked in to see slices of cheap ham already placed on plates, small tubs of Tesco potato salad and coleslaw were there for us to help ourselves. The dessert was a small slice of chocolate cake with the option of squirty cream. This was definitely the worst food that we have ever had at a wedding but I’ve been to some other horrendous, expensive ones too.

I went to a similar wedding, we had waited 5hrs between wedding and reception due to an over zealous photographer! It was the smallest portion of a watery soup ever so my neighbour and I asked if we could have another bread roll we were told that there was only one each, huge gap until main course the veg turned up on a saucer... To share between 2. Dessert was a slice of a ginger? Cake bar and custard so thin it was sucked up by the cake..... When we finally got finished they were putting the night buffet out but it was only for night guests!! Bugger that!

@LegendaryReady

Some of you fo bear a grudge. I couldn't tell you what the food was at any weddding I've ever been to, even my own

I think you've just been lucky. I can't remember any of the 99% of perfectly nice wedding food I've had but like so many others I do remember the one where there wasn't enough! It seems to be the major theme.

Not terrible as it was tasty. But most disappointing was a meal for my friend’s big fat Greek wedding at The Savoy. Starter was a Caesar salad - two leaves of a baby gem lettuce, a couple of croutons, an elegantly draped anchovy and a drizzle of sauce. Main was chicken in a sauce - unremarkable as I can’t really remember much other than the two rings of carrot. I remember the sticky toffee pudding dessert as it was the most filling part of the meal.

We went to my stepsons wedding last month, o had pasta with cherry toms and goats cheese. Very pleasant, but it was "abroad", lots of sea food, and the other guests were having some right fancy stuff. Most memorable, not a wedding but a posh meal with new colleagues in 1988, vegan at the time, I got sliced avacodo for starter, stuffed avo for main, and a whole avo for dessert.

It wasn't terrible but it was very odd with long gaps and we had raspberries with all three courses. I can't remember what the starter was but the main was quite dry chicken breasts with a raspberry sauce. I did wonder if something had gone wrong in the kitchen because the chicken was very unusual. And then they served raspberries and cream for dessert. I wondered if the bride particularly liked raspberries, I don't think so but didn't like to ask.

I’m shuddering reading these. It’s my wedding next week and I’d hate my guests to go hungry. We were on a small budget and are having an informal reception more along the lines of a party.

We have arranged a “mid range savoury buffet” via the venue (wraps, crisps, sandwiches, sausage rolls etc with dairy free and veggie options to cater for all) and the venue have kindly allowed us to do our own sweet options. My lovely friend is making cupcakes, brownies, millionaires shortbread plus a couple of other options and there will be cake cut on the night! Can’t imagine not doing so! A three tier chocolate cake with graduates frosting on our colour scheme.

Also a sweet table (actual sweets and bags) supplied by my lovely DS1 and daughter in law

It’s not posh or expensive but I don’t think anyone will go hungry.. I would be horrified! I’m a foodie too

Pineapple and cheese on sticks, we all met at the motorway services for a meal, although we all didn’t know we were all going there

I’m not a wedding expert or indeed much of a critic usually but it seems in VERY poor taste to serve the “more important guests” different food to the “less important guests”.. and in FRONT of them! I’m quite shocked…

My BIL’s wedding. It was held at a very fancy hall. The brides family insisted on a Kosher meal. Everything was bland and dried out. My (then) three year old daughter (also a flower girl) cried on our way to McDonald’s “ I don’t want to be Jewish anymore!”

She brings it up every time my BIL posts memories of The Best Wedding Ever.

The one where the buffet food ran out before half the guests had a chance to be served. We just went home!

My cousin's wedding.
Nothing wrong with the food itself - standard buffet of quiche, cold meats and salads, then cheesecake, fruit salad or gateau.
But the portions were minuscule. You weren't allowed to serve yourself at the buffet. The servers asked if you wanted quiche or ham or chicken ( not allowed more than one) - the quiche slice was 4cm at the crust edge (we measured) and the ham was a sigle small rectangular slice rolled up. Then one lettuce leaf, one cherry tomato, one new potato. And even wit these teenybportions, they ran out before everyone was served.
My uncle, who was paying, was mortified and tried to get them to serve more, but there was no more. He ended up buying boxes of crisps from the bar to supplement.
The puddings were 4cm squared.
They complained and ended up getting half their money back, but that didn't help on the day. So sad, although it was generally a joyful wedding.

White rice.......nothing else, just plain, boiled white rice.
I'm a vegetarian, this was the 80's, there were about 10 of us.(vegetarians, not guests)
I was so annoyed, I asked for the recipe.................

Ham salad!

Went to a REALLY posh weddding. Was lovely, drink was free and free flowing. But... the food was canapés. All also very good, but not too filling. We got soooooooo drunk - and it was an afternoon / early evening do. We then carried on partying at a different wedding. I think they quite liked having people go out and actually dance on the dance floor, everyone was refusing too until we got there.

@Scarby9

My cousin's wedding. Nothing wrong with the food itself - standard buffet of quiche, cold meats and salads, then cheesecake, fruit salad or gateau. But the portions were minuscule. You weren't allowed to serve yourself at the buffet. The servers asked if you wanted quiche or ham or chicken ( not allowed more than one) - the quiche slice was 4cm at the crust edge (we measured) and the ham was a sigle small rectangular slice rolled up. Then one lettuce leaf, one cherry tomato, one new potato. And even wit these teenybportions, they ran out before everyone was served. My uncle, who was paying, was mortified and tried to get them to serve more, but there was no more. He ended up buying boxes of crisps from the bar to supplement. The puddings were 4cm squared. They complained and ended up getting half their money back, but that didn't help on the day. So sad, although it was generally a joyful wedding.

It must be infuriating for a host who wanted to do it properly and genuinely had no say in the scabby portions provided.

@ohsosorry

Halal only applies to meat items so I don’t think they served vegan food to ensure it was halal. It was to cater to all dietary requirements.

Halal doesn't only apply to meat items, it includes any processed food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals that is permisabble for Muslims to use and eat.

The drink youre describing is lassi. Surely you’d have used your common sense and wondered why a sauce would be served in a jug?

Actually sauces can be served in jugs, as can milk or gravy.

I don't think I've ever had anything that awful at a wedding, but the dullest wedding food I've had would be the kind of unimaginative, flavorless meals that you see at so many weddings. Tomato salad made with flavorless tomatoes, dry chicken with gravy, then dusty brittle meringue. It's so dull and uninteresting, and always at the venues where the venue has an exclusive deal with the caterers meaning the B&G have no real choice over what type of food they want. The best food I've had at weddings have been things like sausage and mash, one friend had their wedding reception in an Italian restaurant with huge platters of pasta, meat, roasted vegetables and seafood etc, and another friend hired a mobile fish and chip van. Absolute heaven! Venues which let you have flexibility and choice over your caterers are the best.

Starter was fish main I couldnt eat as meat! so second portion of fish for me haha

Me and my DP were served no food at all, when we went to his friends wedding.

They were supposed to be serving a hog roast, but the supplier went to the wrong venue and the guests were left with no food.

When they finally showed up hours later, me and my DP were already leaving and on our way to MacDonalds!

@GreyhoundG1rl
We really felt for the brideal party.
They had paid good money and actually had a photo of what a buffet portion should have looked like on a leaflet from the venue - quiche, ham and chicken with a generous helping of various intersting salads and a bread roll ( there was no bread). They had been completely ripped off.

Had to chuckle when I see this, my husband would say anything my wife’s cooked….

I would love to flame him but even I’ve looked at my own cookie questionably 😂🤷‍♀️

Although that has just reminded me a friend was telling me of his daughter's end of Covid restricted wedding.
30 guests, and an African buffet ordered from Leeds (I think the couple knew the caterers from university).
It just never turned up.
Unbeknownst to the bridal couple or their parents, while drinks were being served and photos taken, one of the bridesmaids rang a local pizza place which delivered a range of pizzas with pizza cutters, and one of the guests rang a friend who brought tubs of colelaw, potato salad, rice salad and dips from Tesco. They had been going to have their wedding cake for dessert anyway.
Apparently it was a great wedding!

Stuffed pepper, which sounds ok, but the pepper wasn't cooked and it was all cold. Was a posh wedding in a marquee in a garden with a band and lovely meaty food but not for us.